Haemodynamic and neural responses to hypercapnia in the awake rat
Chris Martin,
Myles Jones,
John Martindale,
John Mayhew,
Chris Martin
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Search for more papers by this authorMyles Jones
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Search for more papers by this authorJohn Martindale
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Search for more papers by this authorJohn Mayhew
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Chris Martin,
Myles Jones,
John Martindale,
John Mayhew,
Chris Martin
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Search for more papers by this authorMyles Jones
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Search for more papers by this authorJohn Martindale
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Search for more papers by this authorJohn Mayhew
Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Dr Chris Martin, as above.
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Abstract
The relationship between localized changes in brain activity and metabolism, and the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal used in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies is not fully understood. One source of complexity is that stimulus-elicited changes in the BOLD signal arise both from changes in oxygen consumption due to increases in activity and purely ‘haemodynamic’ changes such as increases in cerebral blood flow. It is well established that robust cortical haemodynamic changes can be elicited by increasing the concentration of inspired CO2 (inducing hypercapnia) and it is widely believed that these haemodynamic changes occur without significant effects upon neural activity or cortical metabolism. Hypercapnia is therefore commonly used as a calibration condition in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies to enable estimation of oxidative metabolism from subsequent stimulus-evoked functional magnetic resonance imaging BOLD signal changes. However, there is little research that has investigated in detail the effects of hypercapnia upon all components of the haemodynamic response (changes in cerebral blood flow, volume and oxygenation) in addition to recording neural activity. In awake animals, we used optical and electrophysiological techniques to measure cortical haemodynamic and field potential responses to hypercapnia (60 s, 5% CO2). The main findings are that firstly, in the awake rat, the temporal structure of the haemodynamic response to hypercapnia differs from that reported previously in anaesthetized preparations in that the response is more rapid. Secondly, there is evidence that hypercapnia alters ongoing neural activity in awake rats by inducing periods of cortical desynchronization and this may be associated with changes in oxidative metabolism.
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